Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregory Marchand

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was WP:SNOW delete. SoWhy 10:34, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Gregory Marchand

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This article was previously deleted 5 other times under the names Greg J. Marchand Greg Marchand. A 2018 deletion discussion here was closed as delete and salt. It was originally created by a family of socks involved in undisclosed paid promotional editing. The most recent creator of the article also appears to be a member of that group of socks.

Evidence for this includes the fact that the names of references and their formating in the version by the User:GuinnessFreak and User:Nilanda2019 accounts are the same.

The version created by User:GuinnessFreak in 2018 begins with refs

And the newest version in 2020 by User:Nilanda2019 began with refs

The User:Nilanda2019 account was also involved in other promotionally article creating before it was abandoned as is the style of this group of socks to keep their accounts from being connected one to the other. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:48, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missed a July 2019 deletion discussion of the article name Greg Marchand (surgeon).[1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:13, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:48, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and salt with more salt than was applied in 2018, since apparently that wasn't enough. Undisclosed paid editing is intrinsically unethical, and we don't write about doctors because they "won" a plaque from a novelty-gimmick company. XOR'easter (talk) 15:04, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and salt this latest paid-for effort by sock accounts. - MrOllie (talk) 15:04, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Medicine and Rhode Island. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:18, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and salt - still doesn't meet WP:GNG, obvious WP:PROMO. Levivich (talk) 16:20, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and salt - per Levivich. TrangaBellam (talk) 18:15, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and salt, as failing notability and violating multiple policies, and with thanks to Doc James for nominating it here. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:47, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. No pass of WP:Prof. Sources too tainted to pass WP:GNG. I am pleased that the proposer took this BLP to Afd: it was the proper thing to do. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:52, 15 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]
• Delete and Salt per everyone above. ("Arizona Surgeon Removes Enormous Cancer Tumor Through a Cut the Size of a Dime, Setting a New World Record", <sigh> where is this world of ours heading when doctors see setting "world records" like that as the pinnacle of their careers, and more important than saving lives...) - Tom  ✓  | Thomas.W ^talk 22:36, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. No in-depth independent coverage of the subject. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:17, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and Salt No in-depth coverage, weak citation record fails WP:NACADEMIC. Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:35, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Delete and Salt. The article was salted (for good reasons) and should had not been re-created and allowed to stay here for years, no reason to discuss this blatant exemple of self-promotion and paid-editing for a whole week. BTW thanks to the nominator for catching this. Cavarrone 07:34, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.